From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#22392: Emacs OS X GUI doesn't set locale Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:06:45 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <56A90735.7090508__41861.8593867452$1453918242$gmane$org@cs.ucla.edu> References: <83twm01ju1.fsf@gnu.org> <83lh7c1igo.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1453918242 32233 80.91.229.3 (27 Jan 2016 18:10:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:10:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 22392@debbugs.gnu.org, Anders Lindgren , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Third , Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 27 19:10:26 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aOUXo-0002ef-2u for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 19:10:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51901 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aOUXn-0004VG-CW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:10:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52724) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aOUUh-00074I-8P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:07:04 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aOUUg-0004YH-8v for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:07:03 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:50714) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aOUUg-0004Y6-5N for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:07:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aOUUg-00010e-0p for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:07:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Paul Eggert Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:07:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 22392 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 22392-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B22392.14539180163866 (code B ref 22392); Wed, 27 Jan 2016 18:07:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 22392) by debbugs.gnu.org; 27 Jan 2016 18:06:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38934 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aOUUa-00010I-DG for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:06:56 -0500 Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.68]:53034) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aOUUY-000105-Bh for 22392@debbugs.gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:06:54 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0548160724; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:06:46 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10032) with ESMTP id dutjiIXb_nhZ; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:06:46 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 086A8160D05; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:06:46 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at zimbra.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from zimbra.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (zimbra.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id 1CnJ1sa-urt1; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:06:45 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by zimbra.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DADF5160724; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 10:06:45 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:112035 Archived-At: On 01/26/2016 03:05 PM, Alan Third wrote: > To my mind it might be a plus for Emacs to pass it's LANG along in this > particular situation Yes, this sounds right. We can think of it as OS X having a screwy way to specify the locale, for GUI-launched applications; it doesn't bother to specify LC_ALL etc. and expects the application to do that. So Emacs should do that at the start, as if the user had done it before launching Emacs. I looked around, and it appears the GnuCash ran into a similar problem. You might want to look at its solution, in: https://github.com/Gnucash/gnucash/blob/master/src/bin/gnucash-bin.c